Patch 7.41e has been released for Dota 2

On the night of July 31, Patch 7.41e was released for Dota 2. The developers have made changes and balance adjustments affecting heroes and items. The full list of updates in Russian is available in our article.

General Changes
Paired Portals
Teleportation preparation via a Paired Portal can now be interrupted by Stun
. Tormentor
When changing rifts, Tormentor is now knocked off target by projectiles
flying toward him. Item
Changes Abyssal Blade
Strength bonus increased from 26 to 30
. Butterfly
: Agility bonus reduced from 35 to 30
. Damage bonus increased from 25 to 30
. Chasm Stone
: Cost increased from 800 to 900 gold
. Shiva's Guard
Recipe cost reduced from 1,350 to 1,250 gold (total cost remains the same—4,500 gold)
Gleipnir
Recipe cost reduced from 400 to 300 gold (total cost remains 4,650 gold)
Crella’s Crozier
Rite of Rumusque: Movement Speed Steal duration increased from 1.5 to 2 seconds
Putrefaction Aura: Movement Speed Steal while under the effect of Rite of Rumusque increased from 75% to 90%
Divine Rapier
Spell damage bonuses from multiple Divine Rapier items no longer stack
Eye of Skadi
Cold Attack: attack speed reduction increased from 20% to 25%
Hand of Midas
Attack speed bonus increased from 35 to 40
Heaven's Halberd
Disarm: cooldown reduced from 16 to 15 seconds
Hurricane Pike
Hurricane Thrust: the duration of the positive effect after application has been reduced from 6 to 5 seconds
Kaya
: The bonus to mana regeneration has been reduced from 30% to 20%
Meteor Hammer
: The bonus to mana regeneration has been reduced from 35% to 25%
Kaya and Sange
: Mana regeneration bonus reduced from 40% to 30%
Yasha and Kaya
: Mana regeneration bonus reduced from 40% to 30%
Mask of Madness
Berserk: Movement speed bonus for ranged heroes reduced from 8% to 6%
Berserk: Slow resistance bonus for ranged heroes reduced from 30% to 15% (in melee combat, the bonus remains at 30%)
Orb of Frost
Frost: No longer triggers when attacking allied units
Frost: Health regeneration reduction increased from 13% to 15%
Orb of Corrosion
Corrosion: Health regeneration reduction increased from 16% to 18%
Orb of Venom
Poison Attack: Damage per second increased from 10 to 12
Refresher Shard
No longer grants +12 to health regeneration, +6 to mana regeneration, and +20 to damage
Satanic
Unholy Rage: Cooldown increased from 30 to 40 seconds
Smoke of Deceit
Disguise: bonuses to effect duration no longer affect the duration of this spell
Urn of Shadows
: Mana regeneration bonus reduced from 1.25 to 1
. No longer gains charges from nearby fallen heroes, if it is in a stash
. Essence Distiller
No longer gains charges from nearby heroes who die while it is in a stash
. Spirit Vessel
No longer gains charges from nearby heroes who die while it is in a stash
. Veil of Discord
Spell Weakness: mana cost reduced from 50 to 25
Neutral Item
Changes Artifacts
Forager's Kit
Forage: harvest time reduced from 1 to 0.75 seconds

Conjurer's Catalyst
Spellover: Area damage from non-hero units reduced from 30 to 20
Spellover: damage calculations for triggering the effect on illusions no longer account for the damage bonus against illusions
Enchanter's Bauble
Enchant: the increase to spell bonuses when the artifact is re-cast has been reduced from 40% to 35%

Witchbane
Cleanse: Cooldown reduced from 40 to 30 seconds
Greedy
Spells
: Gold per minute bonus reduced from 75/100 to 65/90

Feverish
: No longer increases mana cost and mana loss by 7
%. Now reduces maximum mana by 20
%. Hero Changes

Ancient Apparition
Abilities

Ice Blast
Cooldown reduced from 60/50/40 to 50/45/40 seconds

Axe
Base Agility reduced from 20 to 18
Abilities

Battle Hunger
Damage per second reduced from 12/18/24/30 to 12/16/20/24

Bane
Abilities

Ichor of Nyctasha
Maximum number of nightmares on an enemy increased from 5 to 6
. Resistance reduction per nightmare reduced from 5% to 4%

Nightmare
Duration reduced from 3.5/4.5/5.5/6.5 to 3/4/5/6 seconds
Now completely blinds the target instead of altering their vision range

Fiend's Grip
: The cooldown reduction from Aghanim's Scepter has been reduced from 45 to 40 seconds

Batrider
Abilities

Smoldering Resin
No longer triggers when attacking allied creeps

Beastmaster
Talents
Level 20 Talent: Damage bonus from the hero’s and his creeps’ attacks reduced from 30 to 25
Level 25 Talent: Cooldown reduction on Primal Roar reduced from 25 to 20 seconds

Centaur Warrunner
Abilities

Double Edge
: The duration of the effect when used with Aghanim’s Shard has been reduced from 15 to 12 seconds

Retaliate
: Damage multiplier per Strength reduced from 16/24/32/40% to 14/21/28/35%

Chaos Knight
Abilities

Chaos Bolt
Projectile speed increased from 700 to 900

Clockwerk
Abilities

Power Cogs
Mana cost reduced from 40/80/120/160 to 40/75/110/145
. Range of the gear’s push by its owner reduced from 1000 to 850/900/950/1000
. The cogs’ vision range during the day and at night has been reduced from 1600/600 to 800/400, respectively
. The cogs no longer prevent neutral creeps from spawning

Death Prophet
Agility gain increased from 2 to 2.3
Damage per level increased from 3.6 to 3.7

Doom
Attack range reduced from 200 to 175
Abilities

Infernal Blade
: Base damage increased from 15/30/45/60 to 18/34/50/66
; damage based on maximum health changed from 1/2/3/4% to 0.5/1.75/3/4.25%

Dragon Knight
Abilities

Wyrm’s Wrath
Additional spell radius increased from 25/50/75/100 to 30/60/90/120

Drow Ranger
Abilities

Multishot
Mana cost increased from 50/70/90/110 to 70/85/100/115
Cast range changed from 1.75 * attack range to 475 + 1 * attack
range. Base damage percentage reduced from 100/120/140/160% to 80/100/120/140%

Earth Spirit
Base Intelligence reduced from 18 to 17
Talents
Level 20 Talent: Bonus to Magnetize damage and duration reduced from 30% to 25%

Elder Titan
Abilities

Momentum
: Armor from bonus movement speed increased from 5% + 0.5% per level to 7% + 0.5% per level

Astral Spirit
: Using sub-abilities that return or move the spirit no longer removes the caster’s invisibility

Ember Spirit
Base movement speed reduced from 300 to 295

Grimstroke
Abilities

Dark Portrait
: The ink illusion no longer has the vision radius penalty typical of other illusions

Gyrocopter
Abilities

Rocket Barrage
Mana cost reduced from 85 to 75

Homing Missile
Mana cost reduced from 120/130/140/150 to 120
Cooldown reduced from 30/24/18/12 to 26/21/16/11 seconds

Hoodwink
Abilities

Mistwoods Wayfarer
: Trigger chance reduced from 14% + 1% per level to 14.25% + 0.75% per level

Sharpshooter
Mana cost increased from 100/150/200 to 150/200/250

Hunter's Boomerang
Cooldown increased from 18 to 20 seconds

Invoker
Abilities

Ghost Walk
Duration reduced from 60 to 50 seconds
Aghanim’s Shard no longer increases the slow radius

Jakiro
: Intelligence gain increased from 3 to 3.3

Keeper of the Light
Abilities

Chakra Magic
Cooldown increased from 19/16/13/10 to 20/17/14/11 seconds

Solar Bind
Range reduced from 850 to 750

Legion Commander
Base Strength increased from 24 to 25
Damage at level 1 increased from 57–61 to 58–62
Power gain reduced from 3.1 to 3
Base attack speed increased from 100 to 105
Talents
Level 25 Talent: “Winning a duel resets the Duel cooldown” has been replaced with “Duel cooldown is reduced by 30 seconds upon winning a duel”

Lina
Base Agility reduced from 23 to 21

Lone Druid
Talents
Level 15 Talent: The cooldown reduction for Savage Roar has been nerfed from 5 to 4 seconds
Level 20 Talent: The radius bonus for Savage Roar has been reduced from 150 to 125

Spirit Bear
: Base Armor reduced by 1
Abilities

Demolish
: Bonus damage to structures reduced from 30% to 20%

Magnus
Abilities

Horn Toss
: Damage increased from 300 to 325

Mars
Intelligence gain increased from 2.2 to 2.4

Medusa
Abilities

Split Shot
: Toggling this ability no longer removes the caster’s invisibility and is now available during silence

Morphling
Abilities

Morph
Cooldown reduced from 140/100/60 to 125/90/55 seconds
. Illusions created by Aghanim's Scepter no longer have the vision radius penalty applied to other illusions

Muerta
Abilities

Gunslinger
: Activating this ability no longer removes the caster’s invisibility

Necrophos
Abilities

Sadist
: Health/mana regeneration per effect reduced from 3.7 + 0.3 per level to 3.8 + 0.2 per level

Death Seeker
: Cast range reduced from 750 to 600

Night Stalker
Abilities

Crippling Fear
: Radius reduced from 375 to 350

Omniknight
Abilities

Hammer of Purity
: Post-attack healing increased from 35% over 5 seconds to 40% over 4 seconds

Oracle
Abilities

Fate's Edict
: Enemies can now dispel this ability's effect on the caster or their allies

False Promise
Cast range increased from 700/800/900 to 800/850/900

Outworld Destroyer
Abilities

Objurgation
Now casts instantly and does not interrupt movement
. Barrier health increased from 120/180/240/300 to 150/200/250/300
. Cooldown reduced from 36/34/32/30 to 36/33/30/27 seconds

Phantom Assassin
Abilities

Blur
: The effect of this ability can no longer be dispelled

Phantom Lancer
Abilities

Juxtapose
Cooldown with Aghanim's Shard increased from 15 to 18 seconds

Puck
Abilities

Illusory Orb
Cooldown increased from 11/10/9/8 to 12/11/10/9 seconds

Pugna
Base Intelligence increased from 26 to 27

Queen of Pain
Abilities

Shadow Strike
Mana cost reduced from 100/110/120/130 to 100/105/110/115

Sonic Wave
: Damage from two consecutive uses of this ability now stacks

Ringmaster
Abilities

Impalement Arts
: Periodic damage to creeps changed from 85/90/95/100 to 60/75/90/105

Shadow Fiend
Base Intelligence reduced from 18 to 16
Abilities

Shadowraze
Duration reduced from 7 to 6 seconds
Talents
The Level 25 talent “Shadowraze deals attack damage” no longer applies attack modifiers to targets

Snapfire
Abilities

Scatterblast
: The initial spread width is no longer affected by spell
radius increases. Bonus damage from point-blank shots has been reduced from 30% to 25%.

Firesnap Cookie
: Damage on impact has been reduced from 75/150/225/300 to 60/130/200/270

Mortimer Kisses
: Orb damage reduced from 180/270/360 to 170/250/330
Talents
Level 10 Talent: Mortimer Kisses’ puddle damage bonus reduced from 35 to 30
Level 15 Talent: “–3 sec. cooldown on Firesnap Cookie” has been replaced with “+125 spell range”
Level 25 Talent: The bonus to the number of orbs from Mortimer Kisses has been reduced from 8 to 6

Sniper
Abilities

Concussive Grenade
: This ability can now be cast while stunned, but it will knock the caster back

Spectre
Abilities

Haunt
: Illusion damage changed from 30/50/70% to 35/50/65%
Talents
Level 25 Talent: Damage bonus for all of the hero’s illusions reduced from 15% to 12%

Templar Assassin
Abilities

Psionic Projection
: Teleport preparation can now be interrupted by stun

Tiny
Base health regeneration reduced by 1

Treant Protector
Base attack speed reduced from 100 to 90
Abilities

Leech Seed
: Stun duration reduced from 0.9/1.1/1.3/1.5 to 0.75/1.0/1.25/1.5 seconds

Living Armor
Mana cost increased from 65/70/75/80 to 80

Troll Warlord
Base Agility increased from 23 to 24
Damage at level 1 increased from 50–58 to 51–59
Abilities

Battle Stance
: Switching stances no longer removes the caster’s invisibility

Battle Trance
now also grants +35% resistance to slow effects

Underlord
Abilities

Fiend’s Gate
: The teleportation cast can now be interrupted by stun

Undying
Base movement speed reduced from 300 to 295
Abilities

Flesh Golem
: Bonus movement speed increased from 20 to 25

Vengeful Spirit
Abilities

Vengeance Aura
: The illusion from Aghanim's Scepter no longer has the vision penalty associated with other illusions

Venomancer
Abilities

Snakebite
Base damage increased from 40/60/80/100 to 40/70/100/130

Visage
Abilities

Stone Form
: Ordering the gargoyles to cast this ability no longer reveals the caster’s invisibility

Weaver
Abilities

Threads of Fate
: The range at which threads break has been increased from 900 to 890 + 10 per hero level

Witch Doctor
Abilities

Maledict
The Level 20 talent “Maledict deals 75% damage based on lost health within a 800 radius” now counts illusions as creeps, so projectiles fired by them will not deal damage

Zeus
Abilities

Thundergod’s Wrath
Damage reduced from 300/475/650 to 275/425/575

Lightning Hands
: Toggling this ability no longer removes the caster’s invisibility and is now available during silence
. The attack speed bonus has been reduced from 30 to 20.

The most recent patch for Dota 2 was 7.41d. In it, the developers nerfed Kez, Invoker, Tiny, and Timbersaw; buffed Morphling, Sven, and Razor; adjusted the radii of teleports; and added a mechanic for how Smoke of Deceit interacts with the in-game chat.

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